Law & Crime Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part One by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 15, 2025 Read More
Agriculture “A Spot of Glorious Beauty, Enriched With Fig and Orange and Vine and All the Attractions of This Winterless Land”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1884-1886 by homesteadmuseum Posted on November 19, 2024 Read More
Agriculture “We Are Like Spoiled Children Who Are Accustomed to Having Everything Their Own Way”: Some History of Leonard J. Rose, 1827-1899, Part Seven by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 Read More
Landscape & Gardens “The Most Lovely Stream in the Length and Breadth of Southern California”: A Postview of “The Lost Community of Misión Vieja/Old Mission” along the RÃo Hondo, August 1884 by homesteadmuseum Posted on June 11, 2024June 12, 2024 Read More
Agriculture Grape Expectations Recap: Liquor and Wine Dealer Henry J. Woollacott of Los Angeles, 1858-1910 by homesteadmuseum Posted on November 14, 2023December 23, 2025 Read More
Biographies Youle Tide: Drilling for Black Gold at Turnbull Canyon in the Puente Hills, 1888 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 8, 2023 Read More
Agriculture Tidbits of Mission San Gabriel History, 1876-1885, Part Three by homesteadmuseum Posted on September 17, 2023September 18, 2023 Read More
Biographies What’s In Store: A Letter from A. Hamburger & Sons, Inc., Los Angeles, 9 July 1913. by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 9, 2022July 10, 2022 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing Getting Schooled with a Postcard from Heald’s Southern California Business College, Los Angeles, ca. 1910 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 26, 2022May 27, 2022 Read More
Disasters Here Comes The Flood: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Mrs. James Foley, Duarte, 23 February 1884 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 23, 2022February 24, 2022 Read More
